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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 24, 2012 - 11:58am PT
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HANK! I almost spit my yogurt! That rooskie 'tard is clearly the frontrunner
in this year's Darwin Award race. But Hollywood needs to find that chick
who was doing the Exorcist moaning track in the background.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Feb 25, 2012 - 09:11pm PT
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Why you don't want to follow a 'heavy':
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 28, 2012 - 06:57pm PT
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Looks like I missed some great posts while I have been out doing the real life thing!
Love the Eagle shots, Tom. Thanks for sharing, everyone!
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Karen
Trad climber
So Cal urban sprawl Hell
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Feb 28, 2012 - 07:28pm PT
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Walt, that glider picture is amazing! Wow, how fun....
This is for you Reilly....Kalinin K-7
Crazy isn't it?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 29, 2012 - 01:03am PT
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Karen, thanks so much! When will it arrive?
That thing looks more like a Hollywood set design.
Yeah, those Rooskies like to think big. Talk about drag! Whazzup with those
gear housings, or whatever you wanna call them? No wonder the designer
was shot by Stalin.
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Nice shots, Tom! Yeah, a friend got sequenced into LAX a little too tightly
one night flying the night bank checks. All looked good until about
50' when the vortex slid sideways into his path and his Navajo turned turtle.
He survived, barely, but that was the end of his flying career.
Sadly he had survived a previous crash, of which he was blameless (he was
dead-heading-yeah,ironic,eh?), that really should have killed him. I say
sadly because to have survived the first he should have been allowed by
the powers that be to enjoy his true passion. What was more sad was
that the second crash occurred before new rules about landing spacing
were adopted by the FAA. As I recall he had no idea how close he was to
the jet ahead of him.
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BREAKING NEWS!
A former former Cal quarterback just launched a paper airplane on a 227' flight!
Who needs real airplanes?
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Tom-
THX for posting the Blue Angels link! Also, THX for all the great photos!The wake turbulence photo says it better than anything a CFI could ever tell a noob or wannabee pilot about the dangers there.
I've had occasion to follow a C-17 in the pattern; when told by ATC "to be aware of wake turbulence," my response was to say "extending downwind for wake turbulence avoidance." I then extended downwind for about 2 miles before turning base. I missed all the thrills that way.
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jack herer
Big Wall climber
Veneta, Oregon
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Still messin around with my Go-Pro, shot this last week flying home after going to Chico for some In-N-Out... 2hr flight compressed into 9min kinda cool as the sun sets and landing with no landing light.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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with 1% of Earth's atmospheric density, Mars features extreme winds and turbulence; and take-off speeds on Mars exceed Mach 1
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jack herer
Big Wall climber
Veneta, Oregon
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I've got that whole dead stick take-off video, that guy is pretty nuts! Tons of cool rock footage of Leslie Gulch area as well!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Hoffbrow, shweeet! Where did you launch from? How did you get to 14K?
Did you ride a wave up San Gorgonio?
Redrocker, you want dead stickin'? Here's some good ones:
__Gimli_Glider__
And perhaps the most impressive: __Air_Transat_Flight_236__
Interesting that two of the three most famous ones were conducted by
Canadians after they screwed up their fuel management.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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We got to get more paragliding represented in this thread . . . It's incredible what you can do and how far you can go on thermals, ridge lift, convergence, and evening magic lift . . .
Fusion Nuclear Reactions safely 93 million miles away ---> full EM spectrum sent towards Earth --> sun-light heats the ground ---> ground heats the air immediatley above it ---> convection and differences of air pressure (wind) thoughout the lower atmosphere boundary layer ---> essentially free energy to travel 100s, even potentially 1000s of miles on just nylon canopies and string. Incredible really.
An oldy (1999) but a goody . . .
From Nowhere to the Middle of Nowhere (directors promo)
The first paraglider crossing (tandem) of Western Nepal with John Silvester
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGU0c78V9qI
PARAGLIDING - Cross Country Over Swiss Mountains
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VBwlOHjzRw
When you are really good with your canopy and have become one with it and you're a little insane you can do #$@! like this!
First Tandem Paragliding Infinite Tumble
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr13xRIPfvk&feature=related
The incredible journeys to be done via XC flying on a paraglider have really just begun. Vol Bivouc all the way, doing traverses across massive mountain ranges, circumnavigations and triangles through massive mountain ranges, and flat-land flying for 1000s of miles. Climbing and paragliding. Nothing really like it. It's a dream come true.
What it's all about . . .
Red Bull X Alps 2011 Event Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-UYu8cc-Y&feature=relmfu
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Cool arse thread.
Tom your posting some great stuff.
That shot of the Shuttle coming out above the clouds is fantastic.
I love those shots of cloud and vapor illuminating the massive tip vortices off the big jets. It is a wonderful, visual representation of the airflow kinda like that fighter jet pic where the wings are almost entirely engulfed in condensation.
Great pic and stories folks, keep'm coming !
K I will now stop playing hookie and go back to work.
I have two Icaraus, 330, tandem mains to reline and a third to deline :)
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jack herer
Big Wall climber
Veneta, Oregon
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TomCochrane: Those wake turbulence pictures are wild!
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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so many cool photos -- is the Space Shuttle one real? and the F15 with ass on the tarmac is great too
has anyone built an airplane? My uncle did this maybe 20 years ago and still flies. I was thinking of following in his footsteps, under his tutelage.
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